PANTHEON 1.0 or: Reflections and Speculations on the Roman Construction and Casting of the Pantheon Dome

This writing revisits speculative drawings and ideas by various architects and scholars of the construction of the Pantheon and suggests an alternative methodology negating the need of massive scaffolding structures. While all original specifications have been lost, there have been multiple speculative suggestions since the Renaissance time for how the formwork was implemented to cast the dome of the Pantheon.